For me, that would have to be a running coyote pup at 125 yards with a S&W 6" Mod 19! It was the fifth round that finally connected, but as my witness stated, "You were shooting "at" him!". Which I think meant, "Yeah, I know "luck" when I see it!" But it DID happen.
Last deer season, sitting in my blind, I saw three deer. One crawled under the fence. I've got a bench and sand bags. When she stopped to graze, I saw her fall in the scope and another deers feet fly across the top of the sight picture. By the time I reloaded my Ruger No. 1, the second doe was at 175 yards standing broadside. I watched her drop in the scope.
Total elapsed time? I'd say 8 to 10 seconds and my doe season was over!
I could have shot the third but jiminy cat whiskers! Two's enough!
Up in the North Woods of New York State, I shot at a buck and there was a smaller Doe on the "other" side of him with one shot from a 30-06/180Gr bullet, I never saw her at all..The Buck was so large he blocked her out.Good Thing I had A Buck and Doe Tag that year.(1969)
I know a guy who said when he shot his first deer, he was aiming behind the shoulder. When he walked up to it, he saw he hit it in the head. Told him he should have sighted it in and he said he did. I asked how was he that far off, he said he kinda closed his eyes when he pulled the trigger.
You will never see mine on TV and I can only admit to it now that the statute of limitations protects me from being prosecuted for childhood deeds. There were two geese flying about 200 yards apart about 1/4 mile west of me and about 1/4 mile high. I aimed my trusty .22 half a day ahead of the front goose and about a mile high. I shot and told my brothers to watch the front goose. We watched quietly for about 5 seconds when the back goose folded, looking like someone had dropped a safe on his head. He was hit through the heart and fell like a dart from the sky. His head was stuck fully six inches into the dirt and his body exploded like a watermellon. That was my luckiest shot but I could never recommend it to anyone.
52" Bull Moose at 262 yards. Two shots, were 1 1/2" apart, fired from a .338 win mag free standing. A friend on the hunt rewarded myself and my father with great shooting when he investigated the POI's on the moose. He had assumed that we both shot because the sound of the repercussions were so close together. That is when my father informed him that he never even pulled the trigger, and informed me that he didnt realize i shot twice. I couldnt tell you an actual time in between shots, or exactly why i shot twice, all i remember is that the bull stumbled and started to rise, so i hit him again. It was down hill and the sun had just set, and I didnt want him getting into the woods line. Other than that, i once shot three woodies with two shots, bang bang limit. One of the woodies landed in the conoe with us and hit my paddler in the jimmies. Id rather be luck than good... whatever that means.
Put an arrow in a turkeys ear at 28 yards. It was a steep uphill shot and I called the bird in by placing the box call between my legs and rubbing my thighs together. And yes, I was aiming at his ear hole.
I was varminting for woodchuck not far from Oneonta-Delhi, NY and the grass was too tall to take the shot in the prone, sitting or kneeling position, so I had to take it in the standing offhand position with a heavy-barreled .222 and a 12X scope. I could see my pulse in the crosshairs and that rifle was decidedly muzzle-heavy! I squeezed it off and even I was surprised to solidly connect. I doubt I could do that at the same distance today!
Just this past year on election day I put an arrow in my biggest archery buck ever at 35 yards, while on the ground. He was quartering away hard and on full alert. Got liver and a lung. He was only a couple hundred yards behind the tobacco shed on the family farm in WI. For some reason that part of it does it for me.
I have never made a bad kill shot. The best shot I will ever make will be my last. Too many variables to consider with this question. I have made shots on running deer that died standing upright between 2 trees where it was shot. I have shot ground hogs at 575 yards and red squirels with the bow at 25 yards through the neck. What is truely your best shot. The one that gets the job done the fastest and humanly. There is a saying. "Even A Blind Pig Finds an Acorn Once In A While" Meaning, even the very worst can get the job done once in a while , while the very best can be the very worst any given day.
Mine was a running shot at a whitetail buck in New York State. I would not have taken a running shot, but this buck turned and traveled directly away from me up a steep slope. It required no lead, and my bullet clipped his spine, disabling his hind legs. A quick second and third shot in the chest put him away.
My best shot would have to be this one: I saw a doe walking out of the field I was hunting. She was about 100 yards away. I shot and missed. I stood (I had been needing down) up thinking better go look for blood trails (I didn't know I had missed yet). Once I stood up for some unknown reason I put another bullet in the chamber. I never do that. Anyway, I hadn't taken a single step before the deer jumped out of the woods and ran all the way across the field to about 50 yards up the edge of the woods I was standing next to. Once I had see the deer come out of the woods, I had been trying to line up another shot. I have to admit, the deer did stop on the edge of the woods, but the second it did I shot it, off hand, right at dark, moving (almost) target. I made that shot. I had never practiced off hand shooting with a scoped rifle before. Now, it was a bit of a gut shot, but not bad for a first off hand shot ever.
Up in the North Woods of New York State, I shot at a buck and there was a smaller Doe on the "other" side of him with one shot from a 30-06/180Gr bullet, I never saw her at all..The Buck was so large he blocked her out.Good Thing I had A Buck and Doe Tag that year.(1969)
You will never see mine on TV and I can only admit to it now that the statute of limitations protects me from being prosecuted for childhood deeds. There were two geese flying about 200 yards apart about 1/4 mile west of me and about 1/4 mile high. I aimed my trusty .22 half a day ahead of the front goose and about a mile high. I shot and told my brothers to watch the front goose. We watched quietly for about 5 seconds when the back goose folded, looking like someone had dropped a safe on his head. He was hit through the heart and fell like a dart from the sky. His head was stuck fully six inches into the dirt and his body exploded like a watermellon. That was my luckiest shot but I could never recommend it to anyone.
For me, that would have to be a running coyote pup at 125 yards with a S&W 6" Mod 19! It was the fifth round that finally connected, but as my witness stated, "You were shooting "at" him!". Which I think meant, "Yeah, I know "luck" when I see it!" But it DID happen.
Last deer season, sitting in my blind, I saw three deer. One crawled under the fence. I've got a bench and sand bags. When she stopped to graze, I saw her fall in the scope and another deers feet fly across the top of the sight picture. By the time I reloaded my Ruger No. 1, the second doe was at 175 yards standing broadside. I watched her drop in the scope.
Total elapsed time? I'd say 8 to 10 seconds and my doe season was over!
I could have shot the third but jiminy cat whiskers! Two's enough!
I know a guy who said when he shot his first deer, he was aiming behind the shoulder. When he walked up to it, he saw he hit it in the head. Told him he should have sighted it in and he said he did. I asked how was he that far off, he said he kinda closed his eyes when he pulled the trigger.
52" Bull Moose at 262 yards. Two shots, were 1 1/2" apart, fired from a .338 win mag free standing. A friend on the hunt rewarded myself and my father with great shooting when he investigated the POI's on the moose. He had assumed that we both shot because the sound of the repercussions were so close together. That is when my father informed him that he never even pulled the trigger, and informed me that he didnt realize i shot twice. I couldnt tell you an actual time in between shots, or exactly why i shot twice, all i remember is that the bull stumbled and started to rise, so i hit him again. It was down hill and the sun had just set, and I didnt want him getting into the woods line. Other than that, i once shot three woodies with two shots, bang bang limit. One of the woodies landed in the conoe with us and hit my paddler in the jimmies. Id rather be luck than good... whatever that means.
Put an arrow in a turkeys ear at 28 yards. It was a steep uphill shot and I called the bird in by placing the box call between my legs and rubbing my thighs together. And yes, I was aiming at his ear hole.
I was varminting for woodchuck not far from Oneonta-Delhi, NY and the grass was too tall to take the shot in the prone, sitting or kneeling position, so I had to take it in the standing offhand position with a heavy-barreled .222 and a 12X scope. I could see my pulse in the crosshairs and that rifle was decidedly muzzle-heavy! I squeezed it off and even I was surprised to solidly connect. I doubt I could do that at the same distance today!
I have never made a bad kill shot. The best shot I will ever make will be my last. Too many variables to consider with this question. I have made shots on running deer that died standing upright between 2 trees where it was shot. I have shot ground hogs at 575 yards and red squirels with the bow at 25 yards through the neck. What is truely your best shot. The one that gets the job done the fastest and humanly. There is a saying. "Even A Blind Pig Finds an Acorn Once In A While" Meaning, even the very worst can get the job done once in a while , while the very best can be the very worst any given day.
Just this past year on election day I put an arrow in my biggest archery buck ever at 35 yards, while on the ground. He was quartering away hard and on full alert. Got liver and a lung. He was only a couple hundred yards behind the tobacco shed on the family farm in WI. For some reason that part of it does it for me.
Mine was a running shot at a whitetail buck in New York State. I would not have taken a running shot, but this buck turned and traveled directly away from me up a steep slope. It required no lead, and my bullet clipped his spine, disabling his hind legs. A quick second and third shot in the chest put him away.
My best shot would have to be this one: I saw a doe walking out of the field I was hunting. She was about 100 yards away. I shot and missed. I stood (I had been needing down) up thinking better go look for blood trails (I didn't know I had missed yet). Once I stood up for some unknown reason I put another bullet in the chamber. I never do that. Anyway, I hadn't taken a single step before the deer jumped out of the woods and ran all the way across the field to about 50 yards up the edge of the woods I was standing next to. Once I had see the deer come out of the woods, I had been trying to line up another shot. I have to admit, the deer did stop on the edge of the woods, but the second it did I shot it, off hand, right at dark, moving (almost) target. I made that shot. I had never practiced off hand shooting with a scoped rifle before. Now, it was a bit of a gut shot, but not bad for a first off hand shot ever.
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Best ever?
For me, that would have to be a running coyote pup at 125 yards with a S&W 6" Mod 19! It was the fifth round that finally connected, but as my witness stated, "You were shooting "at" him!". Which I think meant, "Yeah, I know "luck" when I see it!" But it DID happen.
Last deer season, sitting in my blind, I saw three deer. One crawled under the fence. I've got a bench and sand bags. When she stopped to graze, I saw her fall in the scope and another deers feet fly across the top of the sight picture. By the time I reloaded my Ruger No. 1, the second doe was at 175 yards standing broadside. I watched her drop in the scope.
Total elapsed time? I'd say 8 to 10 seconds and my doe season was over!
I could have shot the third but jiminy cat whiskers! Two's enough!
Two pigs with a single shot.
I shot a 30 inch mule deer in Colorado at 400 yards. It took 2 shots but I finally settled down on the second shot a made it count.
Up in the North Woods of New York State, I shot at a buck and there was a smaller Doe on the "other" side of him with one shot from a 30-06/180Gr bullet, I never saw her at all..The Buck was so large he blocked her out.Good Thing I had A Buck and Doe Tag that year.(1969)
Mule deer at about 400 yards one more step and he was gone.
My second and third bucks (4pts) in 1960 and 1961 were shot between the eyes.
I had a Ithica 37 12ga . Beginners luck i guess.
All very nice kills.
I know a guy who said when he shot his first deer, he was aiming behind the shoulder. When he walked up to it, he saw he hit it in the head. Told him he should have sighted it in and he said he did. I asked how was he that far off, he said he kinda closed his eyes when he pulled the trigger.
I am not sure about best shots, but 65 plus years of hard hunting have resulted in some lucky shots
You will never see mine on TV and I can only admit to it now that the statute of limitations protects me from being prosecuted for childhood deeds. There were two geese flying about 200 yards apart about 1/4 mile west of me and about 1/4 mile high. I aimed my trusty .22 half a day ahead of the front goose and about a mile high. I shot and told my brothers to watch the front goose. We watched quietly for about 5 seconds when the back goose folded, looking like someone had dropped a safe on his head. He was hit through the heart and fell like a dart from the sky. His head was stuck fully six inches into the dirt and his body exploded like a watermellon. That was my luckiest shot but I could never recommend it to anyone.
52" Bull Moose at 262 yards. Two shots, were 1 1/2" apart, fired from a .338 win mag free standing. A friend on the hunt rewarded myself and my father with great shooting when he investigated the POI's on the moose. He had assumed that we both shot because the sound of the repercussions were so close together. That is when my father informed him that he never even pulled the trigger, and informed me that he didnt realize i shot twice. I couldnt tell you an actual time in between shots, or exactly why i shot twice, all i remember is that the bull stumbled and started to rise, so i hit him again. It was down hill and the sun had just set, and I didnt want him getting into the woods line. Other than that, i once shot three woodies with two shots, bang bang limit. One of the woodies landed in the conoe with us and hit my paddler in the jimmies. Id rather be luck than good... whatever that means.
Put an arrow in a turkeys ear at 28 yards. It was a steep uphill shot and I called the bird in by placing the box call between my legs and rubbing my thighs together. And yes, I was aiming at his ear hole.
I was varminting for woodchuck not far from Oneonta-Delhi, NY and the grass was too tall to take the shot in the prone, sitting or kneeling position, so I had to take it in the standing offhand position with a heavy-barreled .222 and a 12X scope. I could see my pulse in the crosshairs and that rifle was decidedly muzzle-heavy! I squeezed it off and even I was surprised to solidly connect. I doubt I could do that at the same distance today!
Just this past year on election day I put an arrow in my biggest archery buck ever at 35 yards, while on the ground. He was quartering away hard and on full alert. Got liver and a lung. He was only a couple hundred yards behind the tobacco shed on the family farm in WI. For some reason that part of it does it for me.
I have never made a bad kill shot. The best shot I will ever make will be my last. Too many variables to consider with this question. I have made shots on running deer that died standing upright between 2 trees where it was shot. I have shot ground hogs at 575 yards and red squirels with the bow at 25 yards through the neck. What is truely your best shot. The one that gets the job done the fastest and humanly. There is a saying. "Even A Blind Pig Finds an Acorn Once In A While" Meaning, even the very worst can get the job done once in a while , while the very best can be the very worst any given day.
Mine was a running shot at a whitetail buck in New York State. I would not have taken a running shot, but this buck turned and traveled directly away from me up a steep slope. It required no lead, and my bullet clipped his spine, disabling his hind legs. A quick second and third shot in the chest put him away.
My best shot would have to be this one: I saw a doe walking out of the field I was hunting. She was about 100 yards away. I shot and missed. I stood (I had been needing down) up thinking better go look for blood trails (I didn't know I had missed yet). Once I stood up for some unknown reason I put another bullet in the chamber. I never do that. Anyway, I hadn't taken a single step before the deer jumped out of the woods and ran all the way across the field to about 50 yards up the edge of the woods I was standing next to. Once I had see the deer come out of the woods, I had been trying to line up another shot. I have to admit, the deer did stop on the edge of the woods, but the second it did I shot it, off hand, right at dark, moving (almost) target. I made that shot. I had never practiced off hand shooting with a scoped rifle before. Now, it was a bit of a gut shot, but not bad for a first off hand shot ever.
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Up in the North Woods of New York State, I shot at a buck and there was a smaller Doe on the "other" side of him with one shot from a 30-06/180Gr bullet, I never saw her at all..The Buck was so large he blocked her out.Good Thing I had A Buck and Doe Tag that year.(1969)
I am not sure about best shots, but 65 plus years of hard hunting have resulted in some lucky shots
You will never see mine on TV and I can only admit to it now that the statute of limitations protects me from being prosecuted for childhood deeds. There were two geese flying about 200 yards apart about 1/4 mile west of me and about 1/4 mile high. I aimed my trusty .22 half a day ahead of the front goose and about a mile high. I shot and told my brothers to watch the front goose. We watched quietly for about 5 seconds when the back goose folded, looking like someone had dropped a safe on his head. He was hit through the heart and fell like a dart from the sky. His head was stuck fully six inches into the dirt and his body exploded like a watermellon. That was my luckiest shot but I could never recommend it to anyone.
Best ever?
For me, that would have to be a running coyote pup at 125 yards with a S&W 6" Mod 19! It was the fifth round that finally connected, but as my witness stated, "You were shooting "at" him!". Which I think meant, "Yeah, I know "luck" when I see it!" But it DID happen.
Last deer season, sitting in my blind, I saw three deer. One crawled under the fence. I've got a bench and sand bags. When she stopped to graze, I saw her fall in the scope and another deers feet fly across the top of the sight picture. By the time I reloaded my Ruger No. 1, the second doe was at 175 yards standing broadside. I watched her drop in the scope.
Total elapsed time? I'd say 8 to 10 seconds and my doe season was over!
I could have shot the third but jiminy cat whiskers! Two's enough!
Two pigs with a single shot.
I shot a 30 inch mule deer in Colorado at 400 yards. It took 2 shots but I finally settled down on the second shot a made it count.
Mule deer at about 400 yards one more step and he was gone.
My second and third bucks (4pts) in 1960 and 1961 were shot between the eyes.
I had a Ithica 37 12ga . Beginners luck i guess.
All very nice kills.
I know a guy who said when he shot his first deer, he was aiming behind the shoulder. When he walked up to it, he saw he hit it in the head. Told him he should have sighted it in and he said he did. I asked how was he that far off, he said he kinda closed his eyes when he pulled the trigger.
52" Bull Moose at 262 yards. Two shots, were 1 1/2" apart, fired from a .338 win mag free standing. A friend on the hunt rewarded myself and my father with great shooting when he investigated the POI's on the moose. He had assumed that we both shot because the sound of the repercussions were so close together. That is when my father informed him that he never even pulled the trigger, and informed me that he didnt realize i shot twice. I couldnt tell you an actual time in between shots, or exactly why i shot twice, all i remember is that the bull stumbled and started to rise, so i hit him again. It was down hill and the sun had just set, and I didnt want him getting into the woods line. Other than that, i once shot three woodies with two shots, bang bang limit. One of the woodies landed in the conoe with us and hit my paddler in the jimmies. Id rather be luck than good... whatever that means.
Put an arrow in a turkeys ear at 28 yards. It was a steep uphill shot and I called the bird in by placing the box call between my legs and rubbing my thighs together. And yes, I was aiming at his ear hole.
I was varminting for woodchuck not far from Oneonta-Delhi, NY and the grass was too tall to take the shot in the prone, sitting or kneeling position, so I had to take it in the standing offhand position with a heavy-barreled .222 and a 12X scope. I could see my pulse in the crosshairs and that rifle was decidedly muzzle-heavy! I squeezed it off and even I was surprised to solidly connect. I doubt I could do that at the same distance today!
I have never made a bad kill shot. The best shot I will ever make will be my last. Too many variables to consider with this question. I have made shots on running deer that died standing upright between 2 trees where it was shot. I have shot ground hogs at 575 yards and red squirels with the bow at 25 yards through the neck. What is truely your best shot. The one that gets the job done the fastest and humanly. There is a saying. "Even A Blind Pig Finds an Acorn Once In A While" Meaning, even the very worst can get the job done once in a while , while the very best can be the very worst any given day.
Just this past year on election day I put an arrow in my biggest archery buck ever at 35 yards, while on the ground. He was quartering away hard and on full alert. Got liver and a lung. He was only a couple hundred yards behind the tobacco shed on the family farm in WI. For some reason that part of it does it for me.
Mine was a running shot at a whitetail buck in New York State. I would not have taken a running shot, but this buck turned and traveled directly away from me up a steep slope. It required no lead, and my bullet clipped his spine, disabling his hind legs. A quick second and third shot in the chest put him away.
My best shot would have to be this one: I saw a doe walking out of the field I was hunting. She was about 100 yards away. I shot and missed. I stood (I had been needing down) up thinking better go look for blood trails (I didn't know I had missed yet). Once I stood up for some unknown reason I put another bullet in the chamber. I never do that. Anyway, I hadn't taken a single step before the deer jumped out of the woods and ran all the way across the field to about 50 yards up the edge of the woods I was standing next to. Once I had see the deer come out of the woods, I had been trying to line up another shot. I have to admit, the deer did stop on the edge of the woods, but the second it did I shot it, off hand, right at dark, moving (almost) target. I made that shot. I had never practiced off hand shooting with a scoped rifle before. Now, it was a bit of a gut shot, but not bad for a first off hand shot ever.
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